Новости за 22.12.2018

When then Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn allegedly provided an acquaintance in Saudi Arabia with a total of $14.7 million, he did so in portions of $3 million to $4.2 million over four years from Nissan's so-called secret funds.

For a president who rails against the "fake news media" and dreams aloud of creating a state-run alternative, the Voice of America would seem an irresistible target. Trump allies, led by former White House strategist Steve Bannon, are eager to use the Voice of America to further President Donald Trump's "America first" agenda.

Facebook has suspended Jonathon Morgan, the chief executive of a top social-media research firm, after reports that he and others engaged in an operation to spread disinformation during the special election in Alabama last year.

In 2018, the death toll for militants and security forces in Kashmir touched the highest point in a decade, according to official figures, with more than 324 killed so far. Human rights groups put the civilian fatalities at over 100.

Operation Phantom Support has always known that some people can’t get to its food pantry. Now a partnership with the delivery app JoyRun is helping to fill that gap.

Spain's Foreign Ministry gave permission Saturday to an aid boat carrying 311 rescued migrants to set course for Spain after Italy and other Mediterranean countries did not answer its request to dock.

The cash-strapped Port of Astoria is considering charging fees to passing ships to raise money to maintain its aging infrastructure despite objections from the shipping industry. Pier 1 is often host to large ships that have been ordered to get repairs by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Global Technology Integrator gets its base smells from a French company that supplies the perfume industry. Its pleasant scents include cookies, campfires and an ocean breeze. But they can also include nasty ones such as decaying flesh, bad breath and raw sewage that can be used in military, medical or other training programs.

France's yellow vest protesters, who have brought chaos to Paris over the past few weeks with their economic demands, demonstrated in sharply reduced numbers Saturday at the start of the Christmas and New Year holidays.

At midnight Friday, the federal government entered a partial shutdown, suspending funding for many agencies. This will complicate many lives - those of federal workers and the millions of Americans who rely on them.

On a long winter's night 106 years ago, four of Benjamin and Aletha Woodward's five children wrote letters to Santa Claus and left them for him to discover in the mantle of a second-floor fireplace. A few years ago, during a major renovation, the fireplace mantel was removed, and the four timeworn letters were found.

Maine's Bath Iron Works and three members of Maine's congressional delegation announced Friday that the Navy is exercising its option to build a fifth Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in Bath.

Watching out for “cow pies” on patrol, adjusting fire to account for free-range cattle and sleeping while bulls with foot-long horns walk past their tents are some of the things U.S. Marines are getting used to in Spain.

In a single, surprise tweet, President Donald Trump introduced millions of Americans to Army Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, a former Special Forces officer who faces a murder charge in the death of a suspected Taliban bombmaker.

The USS John C. Stennis will spend Christmas in the Persian Gulf after the carrier strike group sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, arriving during a time of increased threats from Iran and ending an eight-month carrier absence in the region.

London's Gatwick Airport is seeking to run a full schedule Saturday after police arrested a man and a woman in connection with the "criminal use of drones."

The O-Club culture has faded over the past 20 years as more officers have moved off base and more high-quality restaurants have opened near bases. But mostly, it's because the tolerance for heavy drinking has faded, both inside and outside the Air Force.

The O-Club culture has faded over the past 20 years as more officers have moved off base and more high-quality restaurants have opened near bases. But mostly, it's because the tolerance for heavy drinking has faded, both inside and outside the Air Force.

President Donald Trump signed a bill Friday to name a Virginia post office after Humayun Khan, the Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq whose parents he attacked during the 2016 campaign.

As the Islamist militants retreated from former strongholds in Iraq and Syria, they carried vast sums in Western and Iraqi currency and gold coins — a trove estimated by independent experts to total about $400 million — nearly all of it looted from banks or acquired through criminal enterprises.

Army Spc. Jose Juan Melendez Jr. was shot and killed while on leave in Raleigh on Nov. 29, 2017. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper announced in a news release that the state is offering up to $5,000 for information leading to an arrest in the case.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command said it will still track Santa’s late-night journey despite Congress' failure to pass a funding measure, triggering a partial government shutdown Friday at midnight.

Through the efforts of a Yale Law School clinic, more than 50,000 U.S. Army veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are part of a newly certified class-action lawsuit that challenges the less than honorable discharges they received.

The group of Marines had been on leave for the weekend — camping in tents and hiking at Big Bear. As they headed back toward Camp Pendleton, they came upon the crash and entered into what one of the Marines called "Marine Mode" to save the injured motorcyclist.

The abrupt reversal of U.S. policy regarding its small military presence in a remote but strategically significant corner of northeastern Syria has stunned U.S. allies, many of whom were counting on the Trump administration's seemingly tough posture on Iran to reverse extensive gains made by Tehran in recent years.